Among other things, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims the logs show the Times writer deliberately tried to drain the battery by driving around a charging station parking lot. The log shows the loops added an extra six tenths of a mile. The reporter is quoted saying he was hunting for the charging place. The New York Times says it's examining the newly-released logs.

"The bottom line is that none of this should affect anyone's long term perceptions of the potential of Tesla or electric cars." says Will Oremus, a Tech Blogger at Slate who has been following the story. "They've just started building a network of electric car charging stations, so imagine the very advent of gasoline vehicles and gas stations -- it probably was pretty hard to make a road trip back then too."